The Christie Foundation Trust Annual Report and Accounts 2021-22

Directors’ Report

Our Board members

Non-Executive Directors

Kathryn Riddle OBE JP DL Non-Executive Director

Christine Outram Chairman

Kathryn was appointed as an interim Non Executive Director in May 2014 and as a substantive Non-Executive Director from May 2015. Kathryn is the Senior Independent Non Executive Director. She also chairs the Charitable Funds Committee and is a member of the Audit Committee. Kathryn is a patron of Weston Park Hospital, Sheffield and a patron of St Luke’s Hospice, Sheffield. A former High Sheriff of South Yorkshire, Kathryn is a Deputy Lieutenant of South Yorkshire. She has been involved in health services since 1994 chairing the Community Health Trust in Sheffield, the Strategic Health Authority in Yorkshire and the Humber and from 2011-2013 she chaired NHS North of England. With degrees in economics and law, Kathryn was awarded an honorary doctorate of letters from the University of Sheffield in 2012. Kathryn, a former lecturer in law, was the first woman to be appointed a Pro-Chancellor at the University of Sheffield and the first female Chair of Council at the University from 2007-2013. Kathryn remains connected with the University as a member of the alumni board. Kathryn was Honorary Colonel of the Sheffield Universities Officer Training Corps from 2008 2014. A Magistrate since 1975 she chaired the Family Panel at Sheffield and the South Yorkshire Panel of Guardians ad Litem for eight years. Kathryn retired from the bench in 2015. Kathryn has had associations with a number of charities including Scope, Victim Support and Birthright.

Christine was appointed Chairman of The Christie in October 2014. Her first job in the NHS in 1985 was as a patient advocate, and she continues to be passionate about working with clinical staff and with patients to provide excellent services and outcomes, and to further the Christie’s internationally leading role in cancer research. As a chief executive in the NHS in London and Yorkshire for over 20 years, she championed many improvements and innovations in services, and also led major national programmes at the Department of Health and NHS England. She has expertise in professional education and research, and in maximising the benefit for health from digital technology. Christine is also Board Trustee and Vice Chair of NHS Providers, which represents all Trusts providing services for patients within the NHS in England. Alongside her role at The Christie, she is a non-executive director of the Yorkshire & Humber Academic Health Science Network. A modern languages graduate, she holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the London Business School.

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